Seth J. Teller and Michael E. Hohmeyer

EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-92-665
January 1991

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1992/CSD-92-665.pdf

Given four distinct lines in R^3 there exist zero, one, two, or various infinities of lines incident on the given lines. We wish to characterize and compute the set of incident lines in a numerically stable way. We use the Plucker coordinatization of lines to cast this problem as a null-space computation in R^5, and show how the singular value decomposition (SVD) yields a simple, stable characterization of the incident lines. Finally, we enumerate the types of input degeneracies that may arise, and describe the solution set of lines in each case.

BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Teller:CSD-92-665,
    Author = {Teller, Seth J. and Hohmeyer, Michael E.},
    Title = {Computing the Lines Piercing Four Lines},
    Institution = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year = {1991},
    Month = {Jan},
    URL = {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1991/6126.html},
    Number = {UCB/CSD-92-665},
    Abstract = {Given four distinct lines in R^3 there exist zero, one, two, or various infinities of lines incident on the given lines. We wish to characterize and compute the set of incident lines in a numerically stable way. We use the Plucker coordinatization of lines to cast this problem as a null-space computation in R^5, and show how the singular value decomposition (SVD) yields a simple, stable characterization of the incident lines. Finally, we enumerate the types of input degeneracies that may arise, and describe the solution set of lines in each case.}
}

EndNote citation:

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%A Hohmeyer, Michael E.
%T Computing the Lines Piercing Four Lines
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 1991
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%F Teller:CSD-92-665